Hosted by Nate Hanson·8 episodes·Audience: ●●●●●(members only)
What if Christianity could handle your toughest questions? Scholars. Evidence. Honest questions. A podcast for people who want faith they can trust with both heart and mind.
Faith Lab brings serious biblical scholarship out of academic conferences and dense books and into conversations you can actually follow. Every episode, world-class historians, biblical scholars, and researchers explain what they've spent their careers studying about Jesus, the Bible, and the origins of Christianity. What they share will surprise you. Most Christians have never heard the depth of evidence that exists for the faith they already hold.
Nate and Shelby Hanson ask the questions real people are actually wondering and press every guest to make their work clear, honest, and accessible. Guests include N.T. Wright, Tim Mackie, and more.
Whether you've believed your whole life and want to understand why, or you've been carrying doubts you've never said out loud, Faith Lab is for you.
N.T. Wright - Did Jesus rise from the dead? (Part 1)
Mar 5, 2026
The resurrection isn't a theological idea. It's a historical claim. And most people have never heard the actual evidence historians evaluate.NT Wright, one of the world's leading scholars on early Christianity, walks through the case, and explains why the standard skeptical alternatives keep falling apart. Get Surprised by Hope and God's Homecoming🔓 Members get the full unedited conversation with NT Wright, including his extended breakdown of what the New Testament actually say
N.T. Wright: Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
Mar 4, 2026
The resurrection isn't a theological idea. It's a historical claim. And most people have never heard the actual evidence historians evaluate.NT Wright, one of the world's leading scholars on early Christianity, walks through the case, and explains why the standard skeptical alternatives keep falling apart. Get Surprised by Hope and God's Homecoming🔓 Members get the full unedited conversation with NT Wright, including his extended breakdown of what the New Testament actually say
The genealogies don't match. That might be the point.
Feb 25, 2026
Matthew and Luke don't give us the same family tree, and the census in Luke has been called a historical invention. So why would anyone still trust the birth narratives?New Testament scholar Caleb Friedeman compared them against 95 other ancient biographies, and what he found about Matthew and Luke's sources changes how you'd evaluate every supposed contradiction.🔓 Members get the full unedited interview with Caleb, including his breakdown of how ancient Jewish genealog
Were the Christmas stories meant to be history?
Feb 18, 2026
For decades, scholars have claimed that ancient birth narratives were never meant to be taken as history. Then one scholar went and actually read them.New Testament scholar Caleb Friedeman tested that claim against the ancient biographers themselves, and what he found in their own writing doesn't fit the story we've been told.🔓 Members get the full unedited interview with Caleb, including Shelby's pushback on whether these stories are too beautiful to be real. faithlab.supercas
